Word: felted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some of the owners at Rockingham felt almost as sick as the sick horses. In many cases their feverish thoroughbreds were their entire working capital. A serious problem also faced the owners of healthy but quarantined horses. When the summer meeting at Rockingham ended last week, some 300 owners were left stranded - including scores of one-or two-horse owner-trainers who need purses to buy meat and potatoes. In an effort to give these horse-racing DPs a break, Rockingham Park got permission to open its fall meeting on Sept. 13, three weeks ahead of schedule...
...atmosphere is full of vibrations that are too feeble to be felt. No one knows where the vibrations come from or what starts them. Last week, backed by $25,000 from the weather-minded U.S. Navy, the Rev. James B. Macelwane, S.J., St. Louis University, a tubby, genial priest who is one of the world's best seismologists, was laying plans to find...
...showed reporters her dolls. Said she, eyes wide: "There were an awful lot of people there, and at first I was afraid. But I just went over to my piano, and then I wasn't afraid any more." How did it feel when the audience clapped? "Felt good-real good...
...Ruark's loud charges about mistreatment of enlisted men, and about officers lolling in luxury's lap, might not stand up. But dispatches in the New York Times and in Scripps-Howard papers last week listed some "sudden improvements" in the area, indicating that General Lee had felt and yielded to the power of the press...
...sure eye for what he wants: the easy, lounging air that the New Yorker affects. Last week, a former employee named Russell Maloney tried to reconcile the shock-haired man with his brilliantined product. Maloney worked for Ross for eleven years and resigned at last because he "felt rather middle-aged and pooped...